Expanding Perspectives on Human Rights in Africa

M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, Bonny Ibhawoh, M. Raymond Izarali, Oliver Masakure, Bonny Ibhawoh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781351398459
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa. It explores the gaps between human rights provisions and conditions, showing that although international human rights principles have been embraced in the continent, various minority groups and marginalized persons are denied such rights through criminalization and persecution.

African countries have a good record of signing and ratifying international and regional rights instruments but the political will and capacity for enforcing these with respect to minorities remain weak. International contributors to the book provide new perspectives on the rights of marginalized and minority groups in different parts of Africa and the extent to which they are deprived or denied entitlement to the universality and equality articulated in law. The authors show that human rights, while having come of age as a moral ideal, has not been fully entrenched in practice towards groups such as children, indigenous populations, the mentally ill, persons with disabilities, and persons with albinism.

This volume is geared toward scholars, students, human rights groups, policy makers, social workers, international organizations, and policy makers in the fields of criminology, security studies, development studies, political science, sociology, children studies, social psychology, international relations, postcolonial studies, and African Studies.

Index

Abass, A. 43, 50

Abdulazeez, N.T. 196–197, 202

Abiodun, A.O. 201, 204

Aboderin, I. 89–91

Abraham, G. 43, 55

abuse 2–3, 21–22, 25–26, 28, 30–31, 35, 48, 70, 98, 113, 126, 160, 164, 166, 194–195, 199, 204, 206–208, 263, 268, 274; arbitrary 11; drug 186; emotional 194; exposure to 206; from family 165; government 26–28; human rights 1, 6, 14, 22–26, 29–31, 33–34, 48, 50–51, 54, 105, 108, 146, 158, 160, 172, 196–198, 202–203, 208, 252; impunity for 50; mental health 204; non-state 26; of albinos 151, 173; of disabled persons 149; of power 106, 110, 116; of the past 22; psychological 200; rights 56; safeguards against 7; serious 33; sexual 188, 246, 252, 257, 262–263; stories of 34; substance 186, 201

Act: Americans with Disabilities [ADA] (1990) 142, 146–147; Employment Equity (1998) 79; Kenyan Employment (2012) 76–77, 79; Kenyan Persons with Disabilities (2003) 77; Land (1999) 220–223; National Senior Citizens Center [NSCC] (2018) 94, 96, 99; Persons with Disability (2011) 180, 182, 184; Succession 223; The Disability (2011) 190; Village Land (1999) 220

activist 13, 26, 107, 112–115, 146, 169, 234, 257; African independence 105; anti-apartheid 143; anti-colonial 10; disability 14, 142–143, 145–146, 149, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• SECTION I Africa and universal human rights
• SECTION II Human rights and governance
• SECTION III Disability rights
• SECTION IV Women’s rights
• Index